Merve Aydogan<\/p>\n
17 October 2026\u2022Update: 17 October 2026<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Friday that forces outside the country were seeking to divide Canada ahead of a referendum on Alberta’s future scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Forever Canadian Rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Carney said the referendum “comes at the worst possible time.”<\/p>\n
The vote will ask Albertans whether to remain in Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on separation.<\/p>\n
“The world is becoming more dangerous and divided,” Carney told supporters.<\/p>\n
“Open your eyes. There are some outside our borders who are working to break us, so they can own us. Never, never,” he said.<\/p>\n
Carney also acknowledged that promises made between nations had been broken throughout Canada’s history.<\/p>\n
“When something’s not right, when something’s not fair, we as Albertans, as Canadians, we don’t hide from it, we don’t walk away from it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We fix it together, and we become stronger because of it, because that is Alberta, that is Canada,” he added.<\/p>\n
Carney highlights energy independence<\/p>\n
Turning to the government’s energy agenda, Carney emphasized Alberta’s role in Canada’s economic development.<\/p>\n
“Canada is building big again. Alberta is at the very heart of it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Carney said the Pacific Link pipeline would help Canada develop its energy resources and reduce its reliance on the US.<\/p>\n
“By building the Pacific Link pipeline, we are launching our full energy potential. We are reducing our dependence on the United States,” he said.<\/p>\n
The prime minister urged Albertans to reject separation and support Canada’s unity.<\/p>\n
“Now is the time to build, not break. It’s our turn to stand up for Canada,” he said.<\/p>\n
Carney also stressed the importance of voter participation.<\/p>\n
“So once again, turnout will decide this referendum because polls don’t vote; only people vote,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merve Aydogan 17 October 2026\u2022Update: 17 October 2026 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Friday that forces outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,232171],"class_list":["post-936060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}